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Franky Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Englsh Tenses

Who can help on how to use the correct tenses:

Present Continuous
Present Perfect Continuous

Past Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous

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In General, the Continuous tenses express actions that are/were "in progress" at a certain time, therefore they are also called "Progressive tenses". " Key words are very often: (right) now, or at the moment. 2) Present Perfect Continuous is used to express an action, that started anytime in the past and is still going on: "I've been working in the garden for 3 hours".

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  • In General, the Continuous tenses express actions that are/were "in progress" at a certain time, therefore they are also called "Progressive tenses".
  • " Key words are very often: (right) now, or at the moment.
  • 2) Present Perfect Continuous is used to express an action, that started anytime in the past and is still going on: "I've been working in the garden for 3 hours".
  • - means that I've worked 3 hours already and I've not yet finished working.
  • I have to go on for another hour.
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In General, the Continuous tenses express actions that are/were "in progress" at a certain time, therefore they are also called "Progressive tenses".

1) Present Continuous or Present Progressive is used, when the action is happening just right now in this moment:
"I'm answering your question right now."
Key words are very often: (right) now, or at the moment.

2) Pres
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